Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 365

Eh loose Buh Rabbit from de spakleberry bush, an eh tek um by de hine leg, and eh swing um roun, an eh trow um way in de tick brier patch fuh tare eh hide an cratch eh yeye out.

Who acts: Eh, um roun · What happens: loose, trow, hide out · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, spakleberry bush, way, eh yeye, de fuh tare eh

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, um roun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loose	nsubj
2	loose	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rabbit	compound
4	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loose	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 bush	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 bush	advmod
7	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bush	compound
8	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loose	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 um	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 um	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 um	amod
12	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bush	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 leg	case
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 leg	compound
16	hine	hine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 leg	amod
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roun	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 roun	cc
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
21	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roun	compound
23	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trow	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eh	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 eh	det
26	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roun	appos
27	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loose	parataxis
28	um	um	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trow	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	37 eh	case
31	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eh	amod
32	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brier	compound
33	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 patch	compound
34	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fuh	compound
35	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eh	compound
36	tare	tare	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eh	compound
37	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hide	obl
38	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 trow	advcl
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 yeye	det
40	cratch	cratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eh	compound
41	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 yeye	compound
42	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hide	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	38 hide	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	loose	past	Eh	Buh Rabbit	spakleberry bush and a eh tek um by de hine leg	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient
2	trow	infinitive	um roun	um way		tree rules
3	hide out	present	um roun not said here	a eh yeye	de fuh tare eh	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yeye=Patient in eh=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 365

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 365